In Bicol, drivers, operators united against jeepney phaseout
“How can a cooperative help us if we will be working for minimum wage and have payables for the next seven years?”
Albay-based Mavic Conde reports on the link between the environment and agricultural livelihoods. Her desire for solution-focused data reporting is as strong as her dream to become a digital nomad, even though she still gets confused with left and right.
Albay-based Mavic Conde reports on the link between the environment and agricultural livelihoods. Her desire for solution-focused data reporting is as strong as her dream to become a digital nomad, even though she still gets confused with left and right.
“How can a cooperative help us if we will be working for minimum wage and have payables for the next seven years?”
The PBB 401 rice variety stands out because it has repeatedly shown its resilience to floods, including those induced by extreme weather events.
"A just transition to jeepney modernization entails putting critical infrastructure in place and empowering small cooperatives while developing renewable energy sources."
As more cooperatives registered to meet the program's final extended deadline of March 2023, implementation barriers and shortcomings hampered momentum and mirrored the reasons for the program's reluctance among the most affected stakeholders, the jeepney drivers.
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